Our physical illnesses serve us for medicines to purge us from worldly affections and retrench what is superfluous in us, and since they are to us the messengers of death, we ought to learn to have one foot raised to take our departure when it shall please God.
John CalvinFaith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith.
John CalvinThe evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much.
John CalvinFaith and hope...are the wings by which our souls, rising above the world, are lifted up to God.
John CalvinPeace and friendship are an amiable thing among men. They be so indeed, and we ought to seek them to the uttermost of our power. But yet for all that, we must set such store by God's truth, that if all the world should be set on fire for the maintenance thereof, we should not stick at it.
John Calvin